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Full Text of SB1245 95th General Assembly

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SB1245eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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1     AN ACT concerning State government.

2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:

4     Section 5. The Mental Health and Developmental
5 Disabilities Administrative Act is amended by changing
6 Sections 4.3 and 70 as follows:

7     (20 ILCS 1705/4.3)  (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 100-4.3)
8     Sec. 4.3. Site visits and inspections.
9     (a) (Blank).
10     (b) The Department shall establish a system of regular and
11 ongoing~~annual~~on-site inspections, including unannounced
12 visits, of each facility under its jurisdiction. The
13 inspections shall be conducted by the Department's central
14 office to:
15         (1) Determine facility compliance with Department
16     policies and procedures;
17         (2) Determine facility compliance with audit
18     recommendations;
19         (3) Evaluate facility compliance with applicable
20     federal standards;
21         (4) Review and follow up on complaints made by
22     community mental health agencies and advocates, and on
23     findings of the Human Rights Authority division of the

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1     Guardianship and Advocacy Commission; ~~and~~
2         (5) Review administrative and management problems
3     identified by other sources; and~~.~~
4         (6) Identify and prevent abuse and neglect.
5 (Source: P.A. 92-111, eff. 1-1-02.)

6     (20 ILCS 1705/70)
7     Sec. 70. Monitoring by closed circuit television. The
8 Department of Human Services as successor to the Department of
9 Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities may install
10 closed circuit televisions in quiet rooms in institutions
11 supervised or operated by the Department to monitor patients in
12 those quiet rooms. The Department shall study current and
13 potential uses of closed circuit television monitoring and
14 recording within institutions supervised or operated by the
15 Department for the purpose of preventing and identifying abuse
16 and neglect, and shall report to the General Assembly on or
17 before January 1, 2008, with recommendations on how to increase
18 the use of closed circuit television monitoring and recording
19 for purposes of preventing and identifying abuse and neglect.
20 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to supersede or
21 interfere with any current provisions in the Mental Health and
22 Developmental Disabilities Code concerning the observation and
23 monitoring of patients.
24 (Source: P.A. 90-444, eff. 8-16-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

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